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Connect Session (Commissions and Councils ONLY)

Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education Connect Session: Not so Safe Spaces: Confronting Academic Trauma Experienced by Women in Social Work Education

Saturday, October 26, 2024
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 3501D
Panelists will use intersectional feminist and womanist frameworks to discuss the contours of academic trauma experienced by women in social work schools and programs, and how we might center the needs and experiences of women (especially BIPOC women) and create liberatory spaces where women faculty, staff, and students can thrive.

Panelists in this Connect Session will explore how we might use our agency to confront and eliminate conditions that create academic trauma among women in social work education at the macro, mezzo, and micro levels including strategies for promoting healing personally and in community with other women, transforming academic culture, and holding social work programs accountable for creating spaces that are hospitable for women.

Learning Objectives

1. Use Intersectional feminist and womanist frameworks for analyzing academic trauma experienced by women in social work schools, departments, and programs, including specific forms of trauma faced by BIPOC women and complicity in oppressive practices by women against women.

2. Apply intersectional feminist and womanist frameworks in considering how social work schools, departments, and programs can create liberatory spaces in which women faculty, staff, and students, can thrive.

3. Identify challenges to and possibilities for allyship between White and BIPOC women to ensure equitable access and distribution of opportunities accruing to women in social work education.